Definition of Socialism: 1) The older ideology with "collective" ownership of power and means of production; 2) Marx's "Dictatorship Of The Proletariat" evolving toward Communist Utopia.

And old ideology involving "collectives" and collective control
of power, and collective ownership of the "means of production” favoring
a strong sense of egalitarianism over individual rights, i.e., freedom.
"Means of production" is defined as all land, farm equipment, mines,
factories, mills, business offices, housing, energy, etc., necessary to
produce all the food, housing, energy, clothing and goods and services
required on a day to day basis by the citizenry of a whole society.
Socialism also means collective (state) ownership of all capital,
which is to say, the government (state) is the sole banker for the
society. The goal is to achieve total equality - meaning equality not
of rights or before the law, but rather, equality of
wealth, status and condition - among the citizenry, which can only be
achieved at the expense of individual liberty.

(Note well that when a man achieves total equality with all other
men, he has given up all individual human rights, with the sole
exception of one single citizen right: the right to be exactly the same
as everyone else. This is, of course, an unachievable worldly right,
except when everyone is dead.)

With the advent of Marxism,
the term Socialism was largely taken over to describe the
"evolutionary" (but really, revolutionary) phase of society known as the
"dictatorship of the Proletariat (worker class)" leading to eventual
Communist Utopia. Marx referred to Socialism as an unpleasant but
necessary phase in the "evolution" of society.

No nation that ever entered this so called “evolutionary phase" of Socialism ever advanced beyond it.

The theoretical classless society of Communist utopia is, in truth, merely a red herring
false cover for those seeking to gain ultimate ruling power, either
through violent revolution or by trickery. Ultimate Communism is quite
impossible.

Socialism is, in truth, the ultimate aim of all Communist
movements. All nations that ever called themselves Communist were (or
are) in reality, Socialist.

Socialism equals Dictatorship by another name.

Lincoln described our unique American form of representative
government as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”.
Socialism opposes representative government on the theory that the
masses are not wise enough to govern themselves and are therefore in
need of an intellectual elite to rule them and make important life
decisions for them. Elections in Socialist lands are always either
corrupted or sham elections. Most usually, when elections are held at
all, there is only one candidate representing one and only one political
Party. Bureaucrats and government officials gain and hold office at
the sole discretion of the dictator.

As a society moves from representative government, or any
form of government, toward Socialism there is a steady and relentless
migration of political and economic power from the citizenry up to the
central government. When total Socialism is achieved, the central
government holds all political and economic power, and the people hold
none.

The “Communist dream” promises to eliminate world hunger and
poverty; it is a false dream, feeding a false ideology. Existing
history proves that all Socialism has ever done is to kill many tens of
millions of people, perhaps even hundreds of millions, and bring
poverty, cruelty and brutality to whole nations and vast territories.

Question: How many starving or impoverished people has Socialism ever fed or enriched in any way?

Answer: Absolutely none.

No matter how “benign” any given Socialist dictator may appear to
be, it must always be remembered that he is not the last dictator, only
the current one. There will be another. And another. History will
not stop.

Obama is clearly a collectivist and a redistributionist, who has
stated that he views our Constitutional Bill of Rights as a “set of
negative constraints on government” spelling out what the US government
cannot do to the people, while failing to say what he and other
Socialists think the US government should do for the people. He
will move us toward or into Socialism just as far as he is able, which
means cutting back on individual rights and promoting social sameness.

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June 1, 2014. Working my way through all the webpages. .

Regards,

Vic

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"All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics." Pope Pius V

…There he goes again, trying to pick another fight with someone…

Pick a webpage, any webpage; pick a subject, any subject. Or start your own New Subject. Then draw your rhetorical sword and step out onto the field of honor. So, what are you waiting for? Stand up; come on out here.

Never be lukewarm.Life itself demands passion.He who is indifferent to God has already forfeited his soul.He who is indifferent to politics has already forfeited his liberty.In America, religion is not mere window dressing and citizenship is not a spectator sport.Do not allow our common destiny as a whole people to just happen without your input.

Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?

“ … for I have sworn upon
the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man.” wrote Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in
the year of our Lord 1800. The context
involved resistance to any form of Christianity or Deism legally imposing
itself throughout the USA. We must wonder what he might say
about our current government's forced imposition of strict secularism – i.e.,
anti-theism – throughout the USA. I submit that legally enforced secularism of society, like theocracy, like Marxism,
and like Islam, is, precisely, a form of tyranny over the mind of man.Nothing good can come from the religious cleansing of Judeo-Christian society. Government imposed secularism is just another form of theocracy.